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Texas A&M
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ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 5
SATURDAY NIGHT ALL-SERVICE DANCES TO BE REGULAR FEATURE
Press Club To
Meet Wednesday
In Batt Office
The A. & M. Press Club will
hold its initial / meeting of the
summer semester Wednesday eve
ning at 7 o’clock in the Battalion
office. The Press Club is open to
all members of the student publi
cations, and to the news staffs
of the Air Corps, Army Engineers,
Navy, and Marines. Special effort
is being made to release members
of the armed forces from call to
quarters so that they can attend
this meeting.
In the past, members of the
Press Club were all Aggies who
worked on student publications,
but this semester, membership is
also being offered to the news
staffs of the armed forces.
The meeting will begin prompt
ly at seven and will probably last
about an hour. Officers will be
elected for the semester and staffs,
will be drawn up for the various
days. Refreshments will be served
as they always have been in the
past meetings of the club.
Membership is also open to those
persons who would like to work
on student publications this sum-
Former Aggie Is
Home From Middle
East Battle Front
First Lieutenant William S. Rob
inson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Robinson of 5511 Yale, Houston,
Texas, and former Aggie, has re
ported to the Carlsbad Army Air
Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico,
where he will be a student in the
Air Forces Central Instructors
School for Bombardiers.
Lt. Robinson has just returned
from foreign duty in the Middle
East.
The Central Instructors School
combines “refresher” courses in
basic bombardiering with new
techniques worked out in various
commands. Officers back from
combat contribute their experi
ences. Students in the school re
turn to their home stations to
give cadet classes the benefit of
their course at CBIS.
Lt. Robinson is a former student
of Texas A. & M.
Work On Lawn
Beautification
Begun On Campus
F. W. Hensel, head of the land
scape art department announces
that by mid-summer the campus
grounds will be returned to some
of their former beauty. Military
police have been stationed about
the campus to request everyone to
refrain from walking on the grass.
Mr. Hensel states that gravel
walks are to be constructed to
make “short-cuts” over the cam
pus.
Fertilizer is to be spread and
the bare spaces sodded down. More
rain such as we had last Friday
would help to make the grass grow
well, he stated. If our luck as to
the weather holds, we ^should have
a good showing of lawn the latter
part of July or early in August,
he observed.
Thousands Attend
Dedication of Field
At Bryan Sunday
The new Army Air Base at Bry
an Field was dedicated Sunday aft
ernoon before 10,000 visitors from
Bryan and Brazos county. The field
was opened to the public at noon
for inspection ofjliink trainers, the
dining hall, machine shops, and
several of the planes.
At 2:30 the program started
with an introduction of Brigadier
General Luther S. Smith, who was
the main speaker of the afternoon.
After Gen. Smith’s speech, the P-51
Mustang, which was bought by the
residents of this area for the Air
Force, was christened by Miss
Anne Learnard, four - year - old
daughter of Major Arthur T.
Learnard, director of station serv
ices at Bryan Field. Miss Learn
ard christened the ship with a bot
tle of Brazos River water and it
was officially named “The Spirit
of Bryan Field.”
Following the dedication, . an
aerial review, participated in by
scores of pilots, was given for the
assembled visitors. After several
dog fights, three flights of 21
planes each came over along with
the new Mustang.
After the review, the public was
allowed to go through the field
until 6, o’clock, when the field was
closed to visitors.
Agronomy Professor
To Receive Degree
H. E. Hampton, professor of
agronomy has been in Columbia,
Missouri taking his final oral ex
amination for his Ph.D. degree.
Hampton has been on leave of
absence from the Department of
Agronomy for the past two years
while doing his graduate work at
the university.
He returned to the College Mon
day night to resume his teaching
duties.
WAR PLAYS READY
FOR NEXT SEASON
Five short plays written by col
lege students, who competed in the
competition conducted by the
Women’s Section of the War Sav
ings Staff, U. S. Treasury Depart
ment, will be available to thespian
groups next Fall. Mrs. Morgen-
thau, wife of the Secretary of the
Treasury, says they are royalty
free. All are on war subjects.
Minnesota game wardens are at
tempting to scatter a large flock
of pheasants threatening the huge
victory garden at the College of
St. Catherine.
Vacation Bible
School Is Held
Mothers in the College Station
area are requested to note the
opening of the Presbyterian Va
cation Bible School yesterday,
which will continue through the
rest of the week, and enroll their
children in this religious training
course. The classes, which are
held in the A. & M. Consolidated
School, will begin at 8:30 and con
tinue through 11:00 each morning
through Saturday. All children of
the community are' invited to en
roll.
A nursery for three and four
year olds will be directed by Mrs.
R. R. Lyle. The Beginners depart
ment, which includes five and six
year old children who have not
attended school, will be under the
leadership of Mrs. Norman Ander
son and Mrs. O. A. Weinke. The
Primary department, for children
who have completed the first sec
ond or third grades of school will
by MrS ' L G - Adams
and Mrs. C. O. Spriggs. These three
divisions will meet in the first and
second grade units of the school.
Mrs. J. R. Hillman and Mrs F r,
Greenway will direct the Ju^'
ci dren who have completed the
urth, fifth or sixth grades, and
this group will meet in the i usi e
^om. Mrs. Nat Edmondson and
rs. p aul A Woodard will lead
Intermediates, those who have
completed the seventh or eivhlb
grades, and this group will meet
schooL ^ ° f the S
£r ,^ hildr f n of the Nursery and Be
ginner departments are asked to
hnng a piece of fruit and crackers
for the recess period. It i s hoped
that parents in neighborhood
groups witf cooperate in bringing
the children to and from school so
that the greatest number may ben
efit. Besides Bible study and wor
ship the program will include hand
work and supervised play.
Harry Davenport as the college professor speaking on the heroism of Brad
Memorial services, one of the last scenes of “We’ve Never Been Licked.”
Craig at Kyle Field
Rowlett To Speak
This Afternoon; Art
Work On Display
A lecture by John Miles Rowlett
of the A. & M. architecture de
partment on “Trends in Present
Day Planning” will highlight the
Art Group’s exhibit of this year’s
work to be presented Tuesday aft
ernoon at 3 o’clock in the Y.M.C.A.
lounge.
The lecture will begin at three
o’clock and will be presents in the
Y.M.C.A. Chapel. Immediately fol
lowing the lecture, the work of
the Art Group will be on display
in the lounge. This display will be
open until six o’clock it was an
nounced.
Those who are interested in art,
the work of the Art Group, and in
the subject of the lecturer are
especially invited to attend this
showing this afternoon.
EX-AGGIE ON LEAVE
Lt. John Turner Neu, former
Aggie, who has been stationed at
Miami, Florida, in Air Communi
cations is spending a fifteen-day
furlough with his parents, Dr. and
Mrs. C. T. Neu at Commerce, Tex
as. At the end of his furlough he
will fly back to his post in Florida.
1944 Longhorns Are
To Be Issued Today
The remainder of the 1944
Longhorns will arrive this
afternoon and will be ready
for distribution then, L. D.
Boone, Student Astivities Man
ager, announced yesterday. Stu
dents are asked not to go after
their Longhorns until this aft
ernoon and are also reminded
to bring their receipts when
they call for their annual.
:
Former Aggies Are
Given Scholastic
Awards By AIA
Gordon C. McCutchan of Fort
Worth, who graduated from A. &
M. with a degree of Bachelor of
Architecture January 22, 1943
has been recommended to the Com
mittee on Awards and Scholarships
of the American Institute of Archi
tects for the medal for outstanding
scholastic attainment, it was an
nounced by Earnest Langford, head
of the department of architecture.
McCutchan at present is sta
tioned at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
In addition to the school medal he
willy receive £ copy 0 f Mont Saint
Michel and Chartres by Henry
Adams.
The second Prize, a copy of the
book will be awarded to Doil S.
Hammons o/ Knox City, Texas
also a January graduate.
Award of the medal was the
second year that the A. & M. Col
lege Architectural Society has
been given tP® right to make the
presentation, the first medal be
ing awarded i ast year to Frank
F. Beadle, Jr-* Houston. Vernon
B. Smith of Pallas, was runnerup
last year.
WAAC Assigned To
Duty At Bryan
Announcement has been made
to the Battalion that Cpl. Gloria
A. Smith, WAAC, has been as
signed to the United States Army
Recruiting office in Bryan, which
serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes,
Leon, Madison, Robertson and
Washington counties.
Cpl. Smith, who has served for
some time in the WAAC division
of the service, will be glad to an
swer questions relative to the func
tion and duties of her branch of
the service, the announcement re
vealed.
AND BEAUX WILL
CARRY FLOWERS
Women graduating and other
college girls participating in close-
of-the-year activities in the 12
Northeastern states may feel the
gasoline famine in another way,
too. The Office of Defense Trans
portation has banned in that criti
cal area the delivery of corsages
or other cut flowers by the retail
er. Beaux or escorts will be their
own delivery boys.
Dr. Cox Explains
How To Combat
Athlete’s Foot
The common disease, popularly
known as athlete’s foot, is said to
be the third most common disease
seen by skin specialists during the
summer, and the fifth most com
mon disorder in winter. It is due
to a little mold-like growth or
fungus which thrives best where
there is moisture and warmth.
Therefore the feet make an ideal
place for thei growth of this germ.
“To have athlete’s foot, the in
fection must be gotten either di
rectly or indirectly from someone
else,” states Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
State Health Officer. “The most
common places to contract the in
fection are around shower rooms,
baths or bath houses, locker rooms,
and other public places where per
sons go barefoot. And it is prob
able that at least one-half of all
adults suffer from the infection
at some time.”
Dr. Cox suggested the following
as some effective measures for
preventing and avoiding recurrent
attacks of athlete’s foot, and men
at A. & M. would do well to fol
low these rules.
1. Dry carefully and thoroughly
the spaces between the toes.
2. Use a mild alcoholic solution
on these areas after drying.
3. Liberally apply a plain, un
scented talcum to those areas and
sprinkle it freely in socks and
shoes.
4. Wear socks that are absorb
ent but not too coarse. Shoes should
be well fitting but not too tight;
sufficiently roomy but not large
enough to chafe and rub.
Juke Box Music To Furnish Rhythm
For Bird-men, Aggies, Gobs and Gals
All Branches of Service Invited To Participate In
Saturday Evening Festivities At Grove; Bands Will
Be Used Later in Summer, Announcement To Be Made
All service dances either a juke-box prom or with an
orchestra, will be held every Saturday night of the summer
semester in the Grove. Most of the time, the juke-box prom
will be held but the Student Activities has made plans for
band on several Saturday nights.
■ Prices for the dances will be 25
cents for the juke-box prom and
will be announced when a band is
to be had. Richard Jenkins is in
charge of'the dances and is go
ing ahead with plans.
All dances will be held at the
Grove unless there is rain on Sat
urday afternoon or evening. If
this happens the juke-box prom
will-have to .be-’eanrelled. If the
dance is to have an orchestra, the
dance will be changed to SbiW
Hall.
The dance that was to be held
on last Saturday night was called
off on account of rain but plans
are being made for one this com
ing Saturday night.
Intramural Dinner
To Be Held 6:15
Wednesday Eve
At 6:15 Wednesday evening the
Banquet for Intramural officers,
will be held in the Sbisa Banquet
Room.
Representatives from each of
the 22 companies of Aggies will
be present and Dr. T. O. Walton
will be the speaker. Not all of
the officers have been appointed
but those who have are listed be
low:
Bob McLellan, 2nd Hq. Co., B.
L. Lyday C Co., A. E. Hocknday,
D C., Earl Beesley E. Co., R. L.
Butchoesky, B Co., R. E. Stotzer,
4th Co., J. W. Black, 1st Tq., R.
Carlisle, A Co. L. M. Gabert, B.
Co., H. C. Van Horn Band, H. G.
Stubblefield, 4th Hq. Co., R. D.
Redman, I Co., K. M. McEnroe,
1st Co., J. Luttrell, 2nd Co.
According to W. L. Penberthy,
head of the Physical Education
Department, the Intramural games
will begin Monday, June 14. The
schedule will include such sports
as swimming, handball, golf, and
tennis.
Codes, Ciphers To
Be Discussed At
FBI School Here
Physicists Engaged In Submarine
Detection Face Baffling Problems
Men Must Learn Delicate Instruments For This
Type of Work; Airplane Instrument Board Is
Called A Veritable Physjcs Laboratory
Aggies Get Wings
In Texas Training
Schools This Week
The ranks of the “Hell from
Heaven Men” who these days are
living up to their nickname over
Axis strongholds everywhere re
ceived a four-fold reinforcement
today as the schools of the vast
West Texas Bombardier Quad
rangle simultaneously graduated
new classes of intensively trained
bombardiers.
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Among the young Axis-blasters
who received their silver bombar
dier wings were: Oscar^ Wallace
Ziegenhals, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar W. Ziegenhals, 1704 Syca
more street, Bay City. He attend
ed Texas A. and M. College from
1935 to 1937. (Childress).
Francis E. Boyd of Mentzon.
He attended Baylor University
and Texas A. and M. College, and
has a brother in the U. S. Navy.
(Big Spring).
Training received by today’s
A special agent of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation will dis
cuss the use of codes, ciphers, and
secret writing by Axis spies at the
FBI’s quarterly police conference
being held here at A. & M. on
June 17, R. J. Abbaticchi'KJr.,
Special Agent’^if'c^harge of^
FBI’s Houston office, has af
ncuncod. —^
The examination and deciph
ing of documents and letters i
the possession of suspected espion
age agents has resulted in the so
lution of many cases, Mr. Abbatic-
chio said. In the trial of Kurt Fred
erick Ludwig, a German agent who
attempted to transmit vital mili
tary information to Berlin, FBI
technicians were able to ‘"demon-
strate in court the full meaning of
apparently harmless letters. The
FBI’s Technical Laboratory has de
veloped secret writing on the back
of innocuous notes addressed to
mail drops in Europe and South
America. In the face of the evi
dence submitted by the FBI, Lud
wig and six of his associates were
sentenced to terms of imprison
ment ranging from five to twenty
years.
In the fiscal year of 1942, Mr.
Abbaticchio said, the FBI’s Tech
nical Laboratory received more
than 47,000 documents for crypto
graphic examinations. A special
agent will explain how these ex
plain how these examinations are
made and how the results can be
used in court proceedings.
Other speakers will include Cap
tain J. O. Musick, chief of the
Texas Highway Patrol’s Safety
bombardier graduates from schools
at Midland, S^A^e 10 , Big | ^fsionT and E. a" Gormley,'man
ager of the National Automobile
Theft Bureau at Dallas, who will
SCHNECTADY, N. Y., June 8.
—One group of the nation’s 10,000
physicists is engaged in the “dif
ficult task of submarine detection,”
Dr. Richard M. Sutton, professor
of physics at Haverford College,
Haverford, Pa., declared in a Gen
eral Electric Science Forum ad
dress here.
Dr. Sutton said this problem of
submarine detection is one that
“has been in many respects more
baffling of solution than the prob
lem of detecting airplanes at a
distance (by Radar), despite the
fact the airplane travels at so
much greater speed than the sub
marine.”
“Most of the work of the physi
cists at present is secret,” he
pointed out. “The physicist of to
day is lending his talents unstint-
ingly to the needs of his country
in the hope that those talents will
soon be of more general usefulness
to all mankind when the war
ends.”
Dr. Sutton, who also is the aca
demic director of Haverford Col
lege’s premeteorological training
unit of the U. S. Army Air Forces,
said that “with more than half of
the professional physicists taken
for war research, many of our
{Treat colleges and universities are
seriously reduced in staff at the
very time when the demand for
training in physics has reached a
new high.”
In many colleges and universities
(See PHYSICISTS, Page 4)
Spring and Childress, was not
only “the best in the world,” but
the most thorough ever given
bombardiers in the U. S. Army
Air Forces, officials declared.
Under the tutelage of skilled
instructors, the bombardier cadets
spend their first three weeks in
classroom study of the theory of
bombing. They learn the main
tenance, construction and opera
tion of their super-accurate bomb-
sight through the use of large-
scale models which actually work.
On ingenious training devices
which simulate the conditions of
flight, they grow sure-fingered
and skilled in the use of their
deadly instrument.
When the cadet finally takes to
the air, he is ready to drop bombs
discuss the methods used by ar
sonists to collect fraudulent auto
mobile insurance.
Mr. Abbaticchio will speak at
the conference, introducing the law
enforcement officers who are pres
ent and informally discussing
some of the problems of protecting
the nation’s internal security. In
this connection, Mr. Abbaticchio
said, it is the cooperation between
the local peace officers and the
FBI which has made it possible to
(See CODES, Page 4)
experience equal to an estimated
forty combat missions.
By the time he is ready to grad
uate, he is a full-fledged “Hell
from Heaven Man,” fully capable
and make them hit where he aims
his sight. He is ready for the I °f living up to his nickname,
advanced training from speed
twin-motored bombing planes from
which he sends his bombs hurtling j
down at replicas of Nazi and Jap- j
anise sbips-of-the-line, oil refin-!
cries, munitions factories, convoy |
harbor and dock installations.
By the time the bombardier j
cadet is ready to graduate, he not j
only has learned minutely and j
thoroughly the entire bombing i
problem, but has actual bombing |
Kadet Kapers i*re
Set For Sat. Night
Kadet Kapers will be held
Saturday night at 6:15 in the
assembly hall. Richard Jenkins
and his Singing Cadets will
present the show. They will in
clude their famous “Motion Pic
ture” skit in the program. '